Chainsaw Dismemberment is the re-issue of Mortician’s second full length, now done once more on vinyl (double-LP). The band actually was formed at the very end of the eighties, but it took a decade before being able to release two full lengths: Hacked Up For Barbecue in 1996, and this specific second one in 1999. There was much more studio activity during the earlier 2000’s, but that’s another story. This review does deal with this duo’s (Will Rahmer and Roger Beaujard; on this album they were joined by guitar player Desmond Tolhurst, who worked with Roger as well in New York’s Malignancy) top-Horror / Gore-release Chainsaw Dismemberment, which was originally released via Relapse Records, of course.
The record brings nasty stuff from the most gore and horrific side of aural Art, i.e. angry Metal (see further for a more detailed description) mixed with samples taken from different horror movies. These ones, the samples and excerpts, are not necessarily ‘huge’ and ‘known’ parts from ‘big’ (horror) movies, but it must be considered a supplementary praise to this movie genre in general, paying honour to the splattered / splattering side of visual art as well. Do you understand? If yes, please go on; if not: Mortician are the audial translation of those movies, defined by the most brutal and filthy compositions…
Brings me to the ‘music’: ugly, nasty Grind-eruptions, balancing in between snuff-movie’ish blood-lusting and entrails-dismembering (and more of this bla-shit; I don’t feel like adding more superlatives right now, for a nice piece of red meat is waiting for me in a couple of minutes; will I have this steak joined by a couple of glasses of red wine from France, South Africa, Spain or Greece – all of them are possibilities waiting right now in the wine-bin in the room next to the one I am sitting right now?...)…
Anyway, this record brings putrid Grind / Death / Gore Metal with lots of blasting assault, yet several slow-downed parts as well. In each case it all comes with a most gutturally-abyssal throat, malignant and pyroclastic accelerations, down-tuned and blurry riffs, and schizophrenically obsessed drum patterns. It could be a soundtrack for the likes of Faces Of Death, Fear, Dawn Of The Dead, Saw, Hostel or any underground cannibal / zombie / slasher / splatter / snuff creation, with sadistic torture, orgiastic dismemberment and fleshly mutilation in mind…
Damn, I am really craving for my steak – saignant, s’il vous plaît… And I am going for a bottle of the Spanish one to accompany my meal, Sangre de Toro, from 2008… Bon appetite…